Posted by: Che Cooper
in Web Hosting on Apr 28, 2010
If you keep up to date with the goings on in the SEO world you will have read about Google’s recent announcement regarding their inclusion of page load times in to their search ranking factors. With a lot of companies jumping on the bandwagon to use this to sell their services I wanted to address what this means to your website and what you can do to make improvements.
The full announcement from Google can be found here is well worth a read http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.html. In summary the key points to take home are:
- Site speed reflects how quickly a website responds to web requests
- While site speed is a new signal, it doesn’t carry as much weight as the relevance of a page
- Currently, fewer than 1% of search queries are affected by the site speed signal in our implementation and the signal for site speed only applies for visitors searching in English on Google.com at this point
To see how your site is performing and to get a list of recommended changes I would start with looking at “Site Performance” within the Labs section of your Google Webmaster Tools. As you can see one of my own websites is incredibly slow (thanks to multiple JS and CSS files plus a few resource heavy WordPress plug-ins) and needs dome serious attention!
Posted by: Che Cooper
in Web Design on Apr 28, 2010
Modern cars are incredibly difficult to break in to and steal, so much so that thieves often find it easier to break in to a house and steal the car keys to make off with it. Hackers targeting your website are faced with a similar problem when it comes to getting access to your website.
Few hackers target the web host directly, with all the money large web hosts such as ourselves spend on security and monitoring it is simply too difficult to gain access. Instead they go directly after the webmaster by downloading a virus on to their PC and getting the FTP log in details so often stored as an unprotected flat text file within software such as Filezilla.
What do they do with the information?
Once they have direct access to your website’s files they are any number of actions they can take:
- Insert links in to your site & create link farms
- Capture your member’s information
- Links to malware
- Spread viruses
- Destroy your site
Posted by: Che Cooper
in Web Hosting on Mar 16, 2010
A dedicated server is a web server that is devoted to one customer, thus giving that customer all of the resources they need to effectively run their website without worring about experiencing server space or bandwidth other pitfalls. Although dedicated servers are available to every customer, they are usually only used by larger businesses due to their high cost and overwhelming amount of server resources. Most small business owners would not necessarily need a dedicated server, but nonetheless it is a common solution for small business owners as well. One of the reasons why a dedicated server is so suitable for the large business owner is because the server setup is completely customizable and expandable. The following reasons should help you decide if a dedicated server would be suitable for your online business.
Multiple Domain Hosting
Posted by: Che Cooper
in I.T Studio Hosting on Mar 11, 2010
It's Competition time here at I.T Studio Hosting, would you like the chance to win a web hosting plan with a free domain name from Us, then enter our web hosting Competition here
Posted by: Che Cooper
in Web Hosting on Mar 11, 2010
***Latest News***
On Monday 15th March we will be implementing a new feature within the hosting control panel to allow you to set a different password for your hosting control panel access. This will allow you to have a different password for FTP access and hosting control panel access. The new feature will appear on the right hand side of your hosting control panel when you login.
*If you come across any issues on monday please contact us and we can look into them for you.
Posted by: Che Cooper
in Web Hosting on Mar 11, 2010
You can now control your web hosting, domain names from your IPhone.
Available for both the iPhone and all Android powered phones, I.T Studio Hosting is proud to announce the launch of our Customer Control Panel and Hosting Control Panel for the iPhone and Android phone.
To access the new control panel from your phone, simply login as normal via our website and the new mobile control panel will automatically be displayed.
Posted by: Che Cooper
in Web Hosting on Mar 09, 2010
This week we have sent out our march newletter, to view the online copy of this please go here - http://itstudiohosting.co.uk/newsletters/march2010.html
Posted by: Che Cooper
in Web Hosting on Mar 03, 2010
We recently addressed the issue of what we mean by unlimited web hosting here at I.T Studio Hosting with regards to the technical elements of web hosting (e.g. web space, bandwidth etc) but it can just as easily be used to describe the unlimited possibilities of our reseller hosting.
No limits on how many websites you can host
We don’t place any artificial limits on how many websites you can host. 1, 10, 100, 1,000 or 10,000, if you can attract them, you can host them on our servers!
No limits on how customisable you want it to be
Every aspect of your reseller hosting is fully customisable with no extra fees required to make it so. If you can think of it you can brand it.
No limits on adding more features
We want you to be a success and the best way to do that is untie your hands and let you sell without fear of being charged more for doing well!
The price we charge per month (£18.99) or per year (£199.99) is the only fee we will want from you for your reseller hosting. There are no hidden fees or extras to unlock features that are an essential part of reselling hosting. We won’t charge you to give your customers a control panel, to re-brand the webmail or offer graphical stats and we won’t give you a basic package (e.g. 5 MySQL free) and then ask you to pay for more afterwards.
No limits on what you can sell
We don’t charge you an extra monthly fee for the ability to resell domain names or dedicated servers; you just pay the cost of the domain or server itself. This means that if for any reason you don’t sell any over a time period you don’t have to pay us anything.
Posted by: Che Cooper
in Web Hosting on Feb 13, 2010
A lot of web hosting companies, including ourselves, make bold claims about offering unlimited web hosting features such as unlimited web space, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited databases etc. We see a lot of discussion on forums about what this actually means and questioning how anything can really be unlimited when no one (not even Google or Microsoft) can have an unlimited number of servers to draw power from.
What we mean by unlimited is that we have so many resources at our disposal and we have invested so much money in to our infrastructure that our customers never have to worry about hitting a limit because the allowance available is so large it won’t ever be stretched to breaking point.
Posted by: Che Cooper
in Web Hosting on Nov 19, 2009
When it comes to website hosting, there are plenty of companies out there who will readily take your money. They may promise the earth but the chances are that the service will not be as promised and you’ll probably end up paying through the nose for it. With a companies website being such a vital part of a business, the company that provides your website hosting is vital.
Thankfully, I.T Studio Hosting are the perfect choice when considering which company should host your website. We offer a variety of packages which are clearly aimed at three different groups of users. The first package on offer is Home User, with 2gb web space, 3gb monthly bandwidth and 24 x 7 support, this is ideal for home users or small businesses looking to make their mark on the internet. Business User is the second package on offer; this package offers significant increases in size on the Home User package and with added database and e-commerce features. The top package is Unlimited User; this is perfect for businesses as it offers unlimited bandwidth, space and plenty of other tools for business.
One final thing worth consideration when choosing your website hosting company is where your hosting company is based. Most search engines adapt their search results to the country where the hosting company is based and give fast loading websites a boost too. Choosing a UK based website hosting company such as ours at I.T Studio Hosting, means you will be included in more search results. This can only be good for business as it will generate more publicity and sales.
